Suchir Balaji's death was ruled a suicide by the San Francisco medical examiner, but his parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, believe he was killed and are calling for further investigation.
For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids. An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better.
"We're consolidating our product efforts to execute with maximum focus toward the agentic future, to win across both consumer and enterprise," Brockman said in a memo to staff seen by WIRED. Brockman added that OpenAI's products are naturally converging, and that the company has decided to merge ChatGPT and Codex into one unified experience.
The school's endowment invested $20 million in OpenAI during a very early fundraising round, well before Microsoft's $1 billion investment in 2019 and before most people had heard of the AI lab. That stake is now expected to be worth roughly $2 billion, representing a staggering 9,900% return on a single investment.
